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1eName:__Xueqi Yin_____ Session Date: ______________ Session Time: ______
Note: Do not exceed the space provided for your response. You may not require all of the space
provided under each question to complete a satisfactory response.
Question 1: Brose and FastFit are two very different organizations but both rely on information
technology to enable business processes. What are the mission, goals, and representative
strategies for these two organizations and how are they IT-enabled? Lastly suggest an IT–
enabled innovation that would give each of them competitive advantage. (1 point)
Brose:
FastFit:
Mission: Brose organization relies on
information technology in order to improve
their efficient and performance to their
suppliers,
Mission: Fast Fit organization relies on
Information Technology in order to meet
customers’ requirements and delivery system.
Goals:
• To provide information and services
about the organization to their suppliers
and customers.
• To ensure the security, privacy and
integrity of their information system is
maintained.
• To improve their efficiency and
Goals:
• To enable their customers to get all the
information about the company they
may want
• To meet or exceed customers’
requirements for technology service
delivery.
• To ensure the privacy and integrity of
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performance thus improving their
streamline business processes.
their information resources is
maintained.
Representative Strategies:
• .Use of web sites to reach out to their
suppliers.
Representative Strategies:
• .use of the internet to advertise their
services out to the public
How does IT enable these strategies?
• Design of websites that have enabled
the Brose organization to display their
products to their suppliers and
customers have led to high employment
of IT strategies within the organization
How does IT enable these strategies?
• .
IT enables the use of internet to advertise the
services offered in the Fast Fit organization by
designing of a website the company can use to
talk about their activities, give their contacts
and provide links in which those interested can
access the details of the company
What type of information might contribute
to Brose’s corporate learning?
• Information about their supplies could
contribute to Brose corporate learning
What type of information might contribute
to FastFit corporate learning?
• Information about their previously
successful products/ services could
attract more customers for the
company.
Question #2: As a financial services institution, Southwest Bank is a target for cyber criminals.
What actions should the management team take to address this risks? How will each action
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improve the Bank’s information security? What information technology investments are
required as a consequence of this choice? (1 point)
Specific Action
Items
How does this action improve
overall corporate information
security?
What information technologies
will be required as part of this
step?
Requirements
specification-
Understanding the
current business
operations
This helps understand the
organizations background thus
understanding what is the cause
of cyber criminals attacking the
organization
• . business intelligence
• Documentation of the current
system
• Communication
Analysis of the
current system
This action will help the business
in making new decisions that will
help them understand what they
have done wrong and how they
have opened up a new door for
cyber criminals.
• .time management
• Business understanding and
knowledge
Design of a new
system
This means the business needs to
• .IT training courses for the
employees thus communication
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establish the IT technologies it
will employee to avoid future
cyber criminals from getting into
their system.
• .data analysis
• . documentation and coding
Implementation and
testing of the new
system
This helps determine where the
business wants to be in this case
understanding how to get rid of
cybercrimes and how this can be
achieved in the near future
• Coding of the new system
• Cloud computing expertise
• Data mining and
intelligence.
Collaboration and
mainatinance of a
cybercrime free
system
The company needs to collaborate
and work together with IT experts
to create new systems that cannot
be accessed by cyber criminals
• .Communication
• Networking
• Business intelligence
Question #3: In a global economy, many organizations will maintain a core staff to address the
operational and managerial needs of the enterprise while turning to external resources to staff
special projects or to outsource non-strategic corporate functions. For each of the scenarios
below, the sourcing option (i.e. insourcing, partnering, or outsourcing) is identified. What will
be the most important project management steps to successfully deliver a positive outcome in
the efforts described in the column one? (1 point)
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Key Project Management
Steps:
• . employ a team of it Experts that will be in
charge of designing the salesforce.com
website in order to avoid loss of sales.
• .create a baseline, timeline and schedule of
when the project will be completed and used.
• .plan and determine the cost and budget of
coming up with the website for sales purposes
• .Develop a schedule and cost basilene